The Magnificent Seven [Blu-ray] [1960]

The magnificent seven is a 1960 western film that takes place in the wild west and shows a story of 7 brave men who stand up and defend a village of farmers from an enemy.

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This original take on Magnificent Seven is better than the new one. I liked the cast of actors as well as the location/sites. The Mexican actors were very good too.

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This was a brand new disc that stopped playing 55 minutes in.

This was viewed on a 65" Sony A8H OLED TV, with a Sony UPB-X800 UHD Player and Zeskit Lite 48 gbps HDMI cables running through a Denon 4k AVR. This bluray is very nice upgrade from the 2001 MGM DVD using the same AV equipment. The picture quality and audio clarity is much improved. The coloring of the movie is brown with very little color that pops, it's a Western set in Mexico. The trees are dark green and a few shirts are bright red, as they should be. The are some dirt specs ingrained in the opening of the movie, but nothing like the 2001 DVD. I did notice some heavy use of contrast in a few scenes, one being the Steve McQueen/Yul Brenner Boot Hill wagon scene. This classic western retelling of "Seven Samurai" has a great soundtrack. It is front heavy, with center channel dialog and left/right object effects. I wish there was a little more from the surrounds. Maybe a 4K upgrade will be available in the future. I am giving this a 4.5 overall. The color grading could be slightly improved, as well as some film cleanup.

Superb cast! I mean come on, Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn & Charles Bronson, etc. Yet, the underrated Eli Wallach is easily the most compelling character of all. His line about shearing "sheep" is classic. He makes a great bad guy. Watch this movie then see Eli in the Clint Eastwood flick "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" directed by Sergio Leone. He flat out steals that movie away from Clint & Lee Van Cleef in one of the great performances ever. Back to this one, Yul Brunner is the glue that holds all of the so called good guys together. Steve is cool of course but James & Charles (in lesser roles) are more interesting. Simple story but well paced, carried by the great cast. If I could go 4.5 stars I would but 4 wouldn't be justice hence 5 stars. It's a classic & I'm sure it is far superior to the remake which didn't reach out & grab me on the trailers. See it, you'll enjoy.

Yeah, old school, but I'm an old school guy. Apparently this movie was not received well when it was first released in the U.S. but did very well in other countries and when re-released here was more appreciated. Maybe it was competing with more mainstream movies of the time like "High Noon" et. al. but the performances were very good and the story timeless( " Think the Seven Samurai ") and you have an American western with great acting by everybody that made it into one of the classic listed films of all time.